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Welcome new users to piefed.ca and lemmy.ca! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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It seems that a lot of new people have learned about these platforms from a popular post on Reddit. We currently see 78 notifications (and counting) and a pile of applications on piefed.ca

I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!

edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳

Please let us know how we can help! For example, here are some tips on finding communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities The guide says Lemmy, but the steps are the same on Piefed

Since a lot of people arrived here from r/BuyCanadian, maybe you will be interested in !buycanadian@lemmy.ca

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you try again now? I think there are two potential causes:

Our server is being overloaded with new people
Around 15 minutes ago, we upgraded the server specs to handle the increased load, and so it might have been down right as you were trying it

[–] Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just reinstalled Voyager and tried it all again and the same error is occurring.

I will take a break for now and try again later on. I love how much help I've received and hopefully my issue can be resolved and help others in the future.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you able to view piefed.ca in the web browser of the device that you're trying to use the app on? Do you have a VPN enabled?

That should hopefully narrow down where the problem is. We might also be having issues with CloudFlare, we're looking into that :)

[–] Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yes I was able to access piefed.ca on the browser, that's how I was replying initially. No VPN enabled at the time.

I did manage to sign in on the app earlier. I think it must've just been a server load issue from earlier and it is working now!

Thank you!